ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz on Wednesday demanded Libya keep its side of a deal to release two Swiss businessmen after he apologized for the arrest of Libyan leader Muammar ...

The Swiss government said Friday it would cooperate on cases of international tax evasion, breaking with a long-standing tradition of protecting wealthy foreigners accused of hiding billions of ...

What was the innocuous joke? When Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz read the word “Bündnerfleisch,” an air-dried beef product, he suddenly burst into giggles, as the gallery and other politicians also ...

We have them during job interviews, dressing downs and in the case of a Swiss politician, during televised speeches about cured meats. Giggle fits have hit us all. In case you missed it, the Swiss ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Hans-Rudolf Merz is a President with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Forum. The opening session of the World Economic Forum Annual ...

ZURICH, June 7 (Reuters) - Switzerland is no rush to start talks about a new double taxation agreement with Germany in the wake of the relaxation of its banking secrecy, the Swiss finance minster was ...

Swiss finance minister Hans-Rudolf Merz announced his resignation on Friday, a year after his highly criticised handling of a diplomatic row with Libya and international pressure on banking secrecy.

ZURICH (MarketWatch) -- Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz said Thursday that the government had tasked the banking regulator with seeking measures to avoid an indictment of UBS AG UBS amid a U.S. probe ...

Switzerland's president faced growing pressure to resign Tuesday, as the government failed to secure the release of two citizens detained in Libya since the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son in Geneva ...

BERLIN (AP) — Switzerland’s former finance minister says he believes the stress of bailing out the country’s biggest bank, UBS AG, caused him to suffer a heart attack. Hans-Rudolf Merz was finance ...

ZURICH (MarketWatch) -- Switzerland's finance minister Hans-Rudolf Merz expects the country to receive 1 billion Swiss francs, or $1 billion, less in taxes for 2007 as a result of the crisis at UBS AG ...

The politics and perils of relaxing vetting for IDs in Northern Kenya Kenya's great socio-economic divide laid bare by Oxfam report First-ever KJSEA exam results put new school curriculum to the test ...